Re: Using wget to fill in a form

> There are several urls on loc.gov that will retrieve book information > from an ISBN. The one below has no problem with session cookies. So > wouldn't this quick and dirty one-liner do what you want? > > > #!/bin/sh > > # loc.sh > > elinks -dump -dump-charset utf8 -no-references -no-nu

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC > search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return > the information I want: [..] > I have the list of book

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

In the end I did pretty much as suggested, using wget and re-using session IDs. I created a bash script that gets a session ID, reads the list of ISBN numbers, and then tries to retrieve their info. If the retrieval returns a session expired then it gets a new one. It also does a decent job of outp

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

> They've learned a lot about the structure of classification systems since > LC was set up. I've been doing some reading, and there is work under way to modernize the classification system. In the meantime this works for my needs. I do appreciate the suggestion. Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UN

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Hendrik Boom writes: > It's more modern, and its classification guides are legitimately > available for free download. What about LCC is not in the public domain? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. This isn't what you asked for at all, but you might consider the BLISS classification instead. It's more

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

> Have a look at: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ > > Have a read of: > http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/01/22/mechanize.html > > Do a google search on "perl www::mechanize" Thanks for the reply (and to the other kind folks that took time to reply). I will have to put this quest off

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog > by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form > that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return t

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 22.9.2012 18:01, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: I have the list of book ISBNs in a text file, so scripting this should be quite easy. The problem is I can't figure out how to submit the form from the command line. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html It should be quite easy with curl. -- To UNSUB

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

wget isn't the right tool for that job. However its brother wput may be able to do the job. On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Gary Dale wrote: > On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I tho

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 22/09/12 11:34 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it wil

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:28:50 -0500, craig wrote: >> As others suggest, the query should be something like: >> >> wget http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate >> --post-data="ACTION=SEARCH&TERM_1=1886411484&SESSION_ID=1234567" > > Yeah, I was messing with the --post-data, but I didn't know I had to use

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 9/22/12 7:46 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl >> script as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly. >> There are also C, C++ and PHP bindings. > > Ah, that makes sense. I will probably get after this again later > today or

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> Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl script > as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly. There are also > C, C++ and PHP bindings. Ah, that makes sense. I will probably get after this again later today or tomorrow, and I will definitely post any success

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On 9/22/12 7:28 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: [snip] > I kind if figured that would be what I needed, but I'm not aware of any > Z39.50 clients. [snip] Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl script as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly. There are also C, C++

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

> As others suggest, the query should be something like: > > wget http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate > --post-data="ACTION=SEARCH&TERM_1=1886411484&SESSION_ID=1234567" Yeah, I was messing with the --post-data, but I didn't know I had to use an ACTION key. Will play with that. > But I get "session

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

The url you give is for the form. If you enter an ISBN number it will do the search. What you need to do is capture the http header sent when you click "submit query" then replace the test ISBN number with whatever number you want to search. Wireshark can do this. Simply look for the query pac

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

For background see the Bath Profile: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/ There are also bindings for C, C++ and PHP. You'll find them at IndexData's web site. As far as importing into MySQL or Postgresql, that is up to how you decide to map the Bath Profile (most likely the one used) ove

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC > search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the > information

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it w

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a > LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will > return the information I want:

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the information I want: [cod

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On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: [snip] > And a related side question. From my reading, I've learned that the > Z39.50 protocol is used to query databases, usually library related. > Is anyone aware of an ISBN database table that can be downloaded by > the user, preferably in a format that